Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:10:40 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: PROBLEM: Data corruption when pasting large data to terminal |
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On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 06:58:12PM -0500, Parag Warudkar wrote: > On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Egmont Koblinger <egmont@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Short summary: When pasting large amount of data (>4kB) to terminals, > > often the data gets mangled. > > > > How to reproduce: > > Create a text file that contains this line about 100 times: > > a=(123456789123456789123456789123456789123456789123456789123456789) > > (also available at http://pastebin.com/LAH2bmaw for a while) > > and then copy-paste its entire contents in one step into a "bash" or > > "python" running in a graphical terminal. > > > > FWIW, this also works fine on cygwin / Windows 7. No errors. > > $ bash --version > GNU bash, version 4.1.10(4)-release (i686-pc-cygwin) > > Unsure what that means though - probably nothing! > > Greg - when you said it works in vim - since of course vim isn't > 'parsing' the input may be you did not see an error - or did you > actually verify all 4KB somehow? ;)
I verified that the input actually matched the paste buffer. It's pretty trivial to do so.
Odds are emacs also does this correctly, anyone care to verify that?
thanks,
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